The Wheel and Axle

Remember him from the 2014 Asia Games? As George Takei would say: Oh, myyy.

Albert Einstein was, and still is, the poster boy for intelligence. In fact, his name has been used in daily language almost as a synonym for “genius.”

His scientific achievements have been plentiful, and to enumerate them all would take an article significantly longer than this one.

But of course, perhaps his most famous one would be the Theory of Relativity along with that famous mass-energy equivalence equation (E=mc²). His work was critical in our understanding of the time-space frame and all that this entailed.

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Kong: Skull Island on the surface offers nothing significantly new besides the tropes already associated with the franchise: man versus nature, man as the actual antagonist, man getting involved in something he should not be involved in, misunderstood and ultimately sympathetic giant ape, woman develops emotional connection with ape.

But it does have a very delightful and engaging advantage.

Tom Hiddleston’s biceps.

Well, okay, that’s one.

And Brie Larson’s photojournalist is a woman who finally dresses sensibly for the expedition she’s joining. No high heels while running from prehistoric creatures, that’s for sure.

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Because Wonder Woman is less than three months away, it’s about time they dropped a new trailer. The previous two trailers had just left me thirsting for so much more, and in the last couple of months there have been a lot of occasions of disappointingly false alarms about a new trailer supposed to be dropping “soon.”

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Oh, come on. We’ve all been there. Don’t even try to deny it.

I knew there was a reason I’ve always loved Coca Cola more than Pepsi.

Now, I need a pool boy. No, I don’t have a pool. That shouldn’t be a showstopper.

It was bound to happen.

Hugh Jackman, despite what we want to believe, is not getting any younger, and he’s been playing Wolverine for nearly two decades since he debuted the role in the first X-Men movie back in 2000. The time would come that he needed to retire the role, and the time is now.

And what a time it is!

Rather than just let Hugh “silently go into the night” or replace him unceremoniously in a reboot, they let him go out with a bang by concluding his story properly: through a film inspired by the comic book Old Man Logan, a fitting conclusion given how both film and book basically celebrate the twilight years of Wolverine.

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Barbie’s debut in 1959

Happy birthday, Barbara Millicent Roberts!

Golly gee whiz, you don’t look 58 years old, darling.

You look as young as you did when you were first introduced to the world (in blond and brunette versions because: of course) at the American International Toy Fair in New York back in 1959.

You’ve had your fair share of controversies: from supposedly being an unrealistic standard for little girls to aspire to, to being targeted for prior lack of multi-culturality, to – heck – even having temporarily broken up with Kenneth Carson because: priorities.

And yet, here you still are, radiant and stunning, undoubtedly an icon in your own right.

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Seriously, people.

Hollywood has a long history of portraying evil and/or lecherous fictional heads of state and world leaders. How many evil Russian and Eastern European dictators have we seen on film and on TV? How about corrupt South American warlords? Even US leaders have not been spared, as the villainous VPOTUS was a key element in Iron Man 3, for example. Half the world leaders in Kingsman: The Secret Service sold the world out to mass death and destruction.

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I need help decluttering. Stat.

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06 March 1806 – 29 June 1861

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